In grid computing, and whenever the access to resources may be controlled
by parties external to the resource provider, users may be grouped to
Virtual Organizations (VOs). This package provides a VO Membership Service
(VOMS), which informs on that association between users and their VOs:
groups, roles and capabilities.

The service can be understood as an account database, which serves the
information in a special format (VOMS credential). The VO manager can
administrate it remotely using command line tools or a web interface.

/usr/share/doc/voms-server/README.Debian

VOMS server configuration
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In addition to the voms-server package a voms database plugin is needed.
Plugins exists for mysql and oracle. Since the oracle client libraries
are not open source software, only the mysql plugin is available in
Debian. To install the voms-mysql-plugin issue the following command:
sudo apt-get install voms-mysql-plugin
Before starting the se
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